The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his Old Bachelor . Neither the time nor place of his birth are certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true ...
... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his Old Bachelor . Neither the time nor place of his birth are certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true ...
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... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indig- nation . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indig- nation . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
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... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and starts ...
... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and starts ...
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... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not discharging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dis- solution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not discharging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dis- solution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
Pàgina 49
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , sir , your most dutiful sor , and most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE , " Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement , and ...
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , sir , your most dutiful sor , and most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE , " Through the whole reign of king William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement , and ...
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